Hari Om! The Seven Lokas (Sphere's of reality, or Planes, Levels, etc.) 7. Satyaloka : This loka is the sphere within all spheres, or loka within all lokas, and is God Himself as He is in His Creation. It is nameless, formless, vibrationless, spirit pure and without karma. This is the loka at the Heart of all lokas, it is the innermost abode of all truth and love. Sat is Truth, Sat is God, Sat is your true Nature. Hence, Sat Chit Ananda. 6. Tapaloka : This loka is the next sphere to come into existance. It is what is known in the West as the Holy Spirit. It is Om, the primal Sound which caused matter to be, directed by the Will of God. We can commune with Om only after we are blessed with divine insight. Om is the Inaccessable loka, because unless we "become as little children" (pure, even if only temporarily) we can not have access to God's initial emanation. 5. Janaloka : Jana, or Intelligence, is what composes this loka. This loka is what is known as the Son of God, because it is the Intelligence that guides Om, or the Holy Spirit. To tap into this level or reality is to tap into Christ Consciousness. This is the Grand Conductor of our Cosmic vibrational symphony, it is the intelligence with which "one can move mountains". This is where, intially, the idea of seperate existance, or individuality, seperation amongst creation, begins to descend. 4. Maharloka : This loka is the Great Door which connect the spiritual planes and the material planes. This is the first level of reality which when transcended reveals the higher planes of God's Creation. 3. Swarloka : This is the loka of individuality, itself, or the atom. This loka is the magnetic aura which surrounds every atom, and is the Great Vacuum. This loka is the absence of all creation, or at least the reflection of all creation, and is the Void which we may easily become confused in when attempting to understand the finer, subtle electricities which compose existance. 2. Bhuvarloka : Bhuvarloka is the second to the last emantion of spirit. It is composed entirely of the subtle electricities as mentioned above. All gross matter is absent here, so this loka is the Ordinary, or Simple Vacuum. The Light of Creation is only reflected here, and this immense power (thought MUCH weaker compared to the ascending lokas) can be a cause for much destruction or much positive energy. 1. Bhuloka : This loka is your reality as you see it from the time you shed the innocence of childhood until the time you begin to transcned existance. This is the world and universe as you know it, and is the most complex only because we, using the miscreation of thought, designed it that way. But it is essentially very simple and is easily transcended when one begins yoga (soul-union) or dyhana (meditation). The Koshas (Sheaths, veils of cosmic deluison) 5. The core of all matter, the Heart, the Chit of Sat Chit Ananda. Chit is the cause of existance. It is Love, divine love. This is what causes all attraction towards Sat, God. This is the glue that binds atoms together seemingly automatically. This Love causes all attraction and allows for perfect balance and harmony within the macrocosmic and microcosmic (reflections of one and the other in the same) realms. 4. This kosha is Truth, the Magnetic Intelligence which guides the discrimination between what is false and what is reality. 3. This is Manas, or Mind, the ego which is the aftermath of intelligence. Manas and Chitta are the polar ends of the structure of mentality, as one leads to ego awareness (seperation) and the other leads to God consciosness (Oneness). 2. Pranamaya Kosha is the kosha, obviously, of Prana, or the vital life-energy which sustains all living organisms. This is the energy, in Asia known as Chi, which is absorbed through the medulla oblongota and is thus evenly disrtibuted throughout the body, resting at all chakras through the channels called nadis. 1. This is gross matter, the nourishment of physical bodies, as compared to prana, the nourishment of astral or spiritual bodies. The Vacuum is something that is not exactly important as it is a diversion to Sat. The vacuum is something that we were not there to comprhened, thus, it is incomprehensible. A taste for it leaves one confused and wrapped up in the negative polarity, or tapas, one of the three gunas (direction of thought-generation). The Gunas are three in number and are as follows : 1. Satva : Positive energy 2. Rajas : Neutral energy 3. Tamas : Negative energy Prakriti is the female cause of creation of which all Nature is a manifestation of, and works through Her three Gunas. In other word's Prakriti is just another name for what we commonly understand to be Mother Nature, a term which is often thrown around very loosely. Her cause, Purusha, is the name for the Nameless, the indescribable, God the Father of Cosmic Vibrational Existance. So if we take the concept of the Gunas, there are only 3 possibilites we can have in our existance. It is a solid truth that there can never be anything other than Satva, Rajas, and Tamas, there is just no way around it. Rajas (which by the way translates literally in Sanskrit as Raja = Royal, or the Highest) being neutral as 0 exists in a condition that is eternal, because it is just happening, it is within and without everything, pervading the entire Universe as it’s life breath and buzzing in every core energy within subatomic structures. Then you have Tamas as an infinite spiral stretching out into a circle that comes back around and meet’s Satva as an infinite spiral of positivity. But what of 0? It exists, there is no doubt about it. And it can not be nothing since we know it exists. But it is transcendental to both ends of it’s own created spectrum. A room full of mirrors. If we take it in this context, look at spirituality. If you are an atheist you are going down the negative spiral constantly satisfying your thirst to realize that there is no God, a continuous path of negation. If you are an believer you are going up the positive path, constantly negating the naysayers and satisfying your hunger to know that there is a God. But what of the neutral? A certain approach absorbs all 3, the approach of veiwing from the source of your awareness rather than by the sense telephones we operate with. When you are attempting to view whether or not there is a God or a soul, you have a screen in between you and that which you think you are viewing, the screen of the lower mind or the ego, that which is the cause for the illusion of duality. A meditation where you sit and disconnect from your mind leads to neutrality and as the veil of cosmic delusion drops away, you find that your consciousness is just part of that which is pure consciousness, the light of creation. The universal mind essence. The word God means so many different things to so many different people, but when we just stop thinking and experience our existence, that is true living and surely what God intended for us to do, because it brings harmony and balance, sharing and the bliss of acknowledging the fact that you exist right here, and right now. Like a picture that you take with a camera. The negative of the film develops into the positive of the photograph, but like our existance, is just a captured image, a way of looking at what is real right now. The flash of taking the picture is the creative act, living in the moment, the Be Here Now. The flash is like our supposed big bang, defining our universe in an image as the neutral experience in being the one who takes the picture. Same with movies, we can watch a movie and get caught up in the comedy of the drama, or we can turn around and look up into the light, follow it back to it's source. Our very own consciousness works in the same manner of projection, television and radio are as simple reflections of our vibrational mind's operations. It's just that consciousness absorbs energy and transforms it from all sources once we are capable of receiving higher rates, and we can use this method to trace back to the essence of our minds. Body, Mind and Soul, the Holy Trinity, the Trimurti, Man, Woman and Child, Sun, Moon and Stars, life, death and eternity. God Bless -
And yes, as Jay's thread below mine puts the question, LSD did make me go crazy forever. But I love it here Aum Tat Sat -
we're all crazy. those who admit it are a bit more sane great info there. the Bhuloka sounds a lot like what Freud called the superego. a framework like this in mind could help a lot with introspective/meditative tripping
Thanks Burny Yea the Bhuloka is our normal frame of reference, and though these 7 spheres can be related to anything including the acdending and descending levels of the mind, they are what compose reality (according to my school of thought at least). They are the particles with particles within fields within vibrations within Spirit and etc. But it's all the same thing either way! God Bless -
haha dont worry John. I was called crazy for starting that thread yesterday too. oh well. they were just thoughts.
id ratehr be insane than normal. outside the norm is outside the world. and im trying to distance myself from this world as much as possible. "I'm not at all embarassed to use the word "freak"- Hunter S. Thompson ride on relayer, we're all just freaks in the freak kingdom
